Visual Artist Michele Boll’s work is about those moments when light reveals what is beautiful about ordinary places and things. She is generally attracted to run-down buildings, simple objects, alleys glimpsed in passing, or the way light caresses moldings on an old house. Her goal is to capture the feeling of a place and moment in time and communicate that through her work.
Her final composition is never a rendering of an exact scene but rather a reflection of her connection to it. She’ll often remove or add objects to a composition in order to balance and complete the story Michele wants to tell. Somehow, in the spaces between light and shadow, she sees reflections of the people who inhabit or built the structures: a hint of the human condition. The presence of the individual is always there –even when absent.
Michele’s work has been exhibited at the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) Gallery in New York City, the DeCordova Museum (City Views, Landscape Seen and Imagined), the Whistler House Museum in which she was Artist of the Month, the Danforth Museum, the Rose Art Museum, and is in many private and corporate collections. Michele is a past recipient of an Artist’s Fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, now the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In 2017, she was inducted into the National Association of Women Artists.
